That's what you get when you fall for the fairy tales put out by your religion instead of looking in the scriptures to see what God has to say about it...And He says plenty...
Your religion is not the church Jesus Christ built...Your religion is condemned by God all thru the New Testament...
He says that the gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church and for fifteen hundred years he hid it under a bushel basket just for chits and giggles? He says the Word would be preached throughout the earth but for a minimum of fifteen hundred years He made sure no one could read the word without the wrong people translating it for them and teaching them to read? He says His Church is city on a hill but for fifteen hundred years he was teasing and kept it in tiny groups that left not a single written word and depended on the Bible as translated and compiled by the evil Catholic Church?
I understand. Like I said, I got it now. It's a matter of everyone reading and interpreting the Scripture for themselves just like you do. And like you, they can decide that for fifteen hundred years Christ chose to have his Church hidden rather than standing firm for him against little things like the Islamic invasion of the Balkans, Austria, Spain, and France. And he chose to have those parts of the Church that separated from it fall to Islam in North Africa and the Byzantine Empire. He chose to spare that portion that should have never been split off but due to human frailty as the Eastern Church but that's just coincidence. It's sad that he hid His Church rather than having it start universities and hospitals, preserve every scrap of Greek and Latin writings they could find, and extra special good that they weren't fighting heresy as it blossomed. It's good to know that each and every person who has ever called themselves Catholic is taking part in a little fairy tale fantasy of some sort.
It's just too bad everyone wasn't interpreting Scriptures for themselves because they could have avoided all the problems we're having these days with Islamic jihad. Yeah, see that proves your point again. If things had been done as you assert they should be, we'd all be Muslim and there wouldn't be any reason for these endless discussions that serve primarily to make all Christians look petty and no reason for your assertion that everyone who ever was in the Catholic hierarchy is guilty of buggery and conspiracy to perpetuate said buggery.
have just a lovely evening